David Soward
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David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Soward canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7835723 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Soward Context triple: [Urban Decay, founder, David Soward]
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A.
Douglas Slocombe
Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
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B.
Lawrence Crawford
Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
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C.
John Leeson
John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
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D.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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E.
Alan Manning
Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Soward Target entity description: David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
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A.
Douglas Slocombe
Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
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B.
Lawrence Crawford
Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
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C.
John Leeson
John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
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D.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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E.
Alan Manning
Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
cosmetics brand ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 1990s ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Urban Decay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| helpedPopularize |
alternative makeup
ⓘ
edgy makeup ⓘ non-traditional cosmetics aesthetics ⓘ |
| industry |
beauty industry
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cosmetics industry ⓘ cosmetics industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
alternative makeup style
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co-founding Urban Decay ⓘ edgy makeup ⓘ |
| notableInPeriod | 1990s beauty market ⓘ |
| notableWork | Urban Decay cosmetics brand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | entrepreneur ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: David Soward Description of subject: David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.